Topic : Women in the Arts

Welcome back !

I am so happy that we now can discuss topics in the Arts online, anytime ! Thanks for registering and for checking in periodically to comment, update, learn and share.

Here's today’s topic : Why do you think Women in the Arts are relegated to supportive roles, or roles in group settings, or are relegated to renegade roles, alone, out there somewhere, pioneering without much help from the arts community or from society ?
Do you think these are valid questions ?
Can you think of any women who have been marginalized thusly, and what were some of the results ? Suicide, loss of family, loss of job, mental breakdown, or the abandonment of the artistic pursuit ? Have you ever felt marginalized as a woman, especially as a woman artist ?

Let me know what you think.

All the best,

Linda Ravenswood

Art is so subjective

Welcome to day One of our new web log, Talking Arts, a contemporary focal group of students, artists and writers discussing the arts today.

topic : is there such thing as real art ? what's the difference between real art and fake art, or craft art or folk art ? why do Van Gogh's Sunflowers go for 100 million bucks, and my grannies wild flowers don't ?

who is determining all of this stuff anyway ?

what do you think about the art world and its hierarchy ?

is someone in charge ?